...From Hawai'i Family Advocates....

When it comes to hiring a home health aide, where you live matters....

This week, two anti-gun bills, House Bill 625 and Senate Bill 2954 were enrolled to the Governor for his consideration.  Additionally, final action may soon be taken on two other anti-gun bills, House Bill 2632 and Senate Bill 2647....

"As Zika continues to spread rapidly overseas, we must take precautionary measures to prevent any locally acquired cases from taking hold in our state.”

College Affordability Diagnosis shows that higher education has gone from expensive to unaffordable for most American families....

...Hawaii's aggregate scores are in the highest quartiles of both illegal and legal corruption....

Illinois has the nation’s highest median property tax rate at 2.67 percent, according to new data from CoreLogic, while Hawaii has the lowest median property tax rate at 0.31 percent....

... people who promote sexual reassignment surgery “are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder” ....

...second in problem gambling treatment....

...legislators are allowed to simply carve up the Capitol Improvement Budget by political favoritism....

A new accounting standard is requiring Hawaii to come clean about its pension debt, but the state is still hiding billions of pension and health care debt from its financial reports....

...we have an old eminent domain code and don't have a whole lot of current decisional law applying it....

... when it makes allegations like this, there's not going to be much doubt about the outcome, is there? ....

...requesting a waiver of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act that compromise the state’s existing Prepaid Health Care Act...

...Compared with 2004‐2005, Honolulu consumers spent more on housing in 2013‐2014, with the share of housing increasing from 31.7% to 43.2%....

"...he has quite the history of confrontations with HPD...."

...Child care for a 4-year-old costs an average of $776 each month....

• Senate: Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization – Passage
• Senate: Energy Policy – Passage
• Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Eliminate Funding for Various Commissions
• Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program
• House: IRS Hiring – Passage
• House: IRS Oversight and User Fees - Passage
• House: Bar IRS from Rehiring Certain Employees – Passage